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captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations >> osgood: good morning, i'm charles ross good this is "sunday morning." tonight is oscar night. we'll be looking ahead to the academy awards all morning long. if oscars are the pinnacle of tinsel town, the sting of
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criticism as proven staying power. new meaning to the song lyric, you must remember this. peggy smith will be reporting our cover story. >> ask any actor or critic not all criticism is helpful. >> i love having a good editor go over my copy. >> that's constructive criticism. >> what is destructive. >> you stink. >> that's the kind that stays with you. >> critics said i had a voice it could kill small animals. >> ahead on "sunday morning" why the unpleasant is so unforgettable. >> hollywood's true transformer isn't a robot from the action film. to the contrary real live human being with power to transform anything do what the script requires.
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>> do you know what happened to him? >> i can't remember. >> matthew mungle spend his days among the dead. >> billy bob thornton. >> the artificial dead. >> a good deal of time with the living making them up to appear close to death. the mirror becoming that character that's the greatest joy. >> how kid from oklahoma farm became hollywood's make up man later on "sunday morning." >> eva marie saint won an oscar, all these years later she'd be winning an oscar for speaking her mind as we'll see later. >> on screen eva marie saint made love to some of the sexiest men in hollywood. but off screen she's been married to the same man for 62
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years. >> when you were kissing cary grant were you thinking of him? >> are you crazy? >> later on "sunday morning" oscar winner eva marie saint. >> along been big box stars great motion pictures, will travel to one you've seen and seen again. >> when you think of the old west, does it look like this? since the 190s mob unionment valley has been stealing the screens from the likes of john wayne. >> reverend, looks like you got yourself surrounded. >> it's come a ready and drop dead gorgeous.
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ahead, mother nature, movie star. >> serena altschul dazzles us with jewelry. steve mart than tells the tale of a boy, soldier and greatest honest. but first headlines the second of march, 2014. we are at the brink of disaster said leader of ukraine begging for world leaders to help his nation to get latest from kelly. >> in crimea, russians are now in control. 15,000 russian soldiers. prime minister. >> we are on the brink of disaster. there is not any reason for the russian federation to invade ukraine. >> ukraine responded to the take
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over by calling reservists and putting military on combat alert in 90 minute phone call, president obama accused vladimir putin. putin refused to back down saying russia was protecting citizens, soldiers and center in ukraine. the worry now is russians. battled supporters inside eastern ukrainian cities. the russian parliament gave putin to send soldiers anywhere in ukraine. will this region be next. the government is appealing to nato, britain and u.s. for help. nato ambassadors are due to meet in brussels later today. >> osgood: china is blaming extremists for the knife attack at a train station. more than 0 people were killed
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and 130 others injured. said to have shot four assailants. a massive winter storm is charging eastward is expected to dump ice and heavy snow across the midwest to the mid atlantic states. the storm left a muddy mess in california. also turned up seas that smashed through a restaurant window in santa barbara. and 100 vehicle pile up on 125. in philadelphia thousands turned out for the commissioning of the uss summersot the ship honors 40 passengers and crew aboard hijacked united airliner who died on 9/11. ship is named after the pennsylvania county where flight 93 crashed. it was all in the family last night's razzies the worst movies
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of the year. dane smith in "after earth" his costar and father will smith was named for worst supporting actor. on today's weather, major storm sweeping east could trigger severe thunderstorms in parts of the south freezing rain will fall on oklahoma, kentucky and ohio. and another system will soak the northwest. week ahead warmer in the northeast, wet in the southeast and sun returning to the southwest. next -- >> i sometimes think about people stealing because i've been criticized, too. >> everyone is a critic. >> later -- talk about a body of work. >> not good. this is my first tour. i didn't quite know what to expect.
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>> osgood: the words "you must remember this" are from a song "as time goes by" made famous by casa blanca. or a bit of a curse considering what we're learning about criticism, power to root itself in our minds. our sunday morning cover story is reported with you tracy smith. >> in the 40 years he's been writing books and movie review, leonard malton but those aren't
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what he remembers. >> i save all the reviews my books have gotten over the years. and i can cite negative ones for you pretty much from memory. >> and positive ones? >> not so much. >> the fact is criticism sticks. beneath every designer outfit on the red carpet there better be a thick skin. when a movie gets panned how do you take that? >> it's hard. it's stupid for us to read them. >> and critics said, i had a voice that could kill small animals. not a real confidence builder. >> that kind of pain is hard to shake for any of us. so why are the unpleasant things so unforgettable? scientists call it negativity
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bias. bad news makes a much bigger impact on our brain and been that way when our lives depended on being able to remember above all what could kill us. >> we're still walking around with the stone age brain. >> psychologist rick hanson wrote a book about ways to beat our natural negativity bias. >> we have a brain that's really good at learning from bad experiences and it's relatively bad at learning from good experiences that's why i say that the brain is like velcro for the bad but teflon for the good. >> few people understand the power of bad as well as a film critic. do you think about people's feelings when you sit down to review something? >> i sometimes think about people's feelings because i've been criticized, too, if i've just seen a really terrible movie that is offended me to the
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marrow of my bone i'm not thinking about their feelings. if you get caught in a summer shower the only way to get dry is pop in a movie theater, stay wet or pick another film. >> is there a lane you won't cross? >> there are times when i'll see movie with actress who is purport to be beautiful and i can't like her look. that's a line i don't think i should cross yet somehow i feel i perhaps should address it. >> have you ever crossed that line? >> i hope not. >> for others there really are no lines. john was a long time critic for new york magazine. a harvard phd what maintained that anything on the stage or screen was fair game for criticism. ♪ in 1977 he reviewed liza minelli? the act" and criticized everything including her face
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writing that she had, quoting now, blubber lips. unable to resist the pull of gravity and chin drying it's damndest to withdraw in the neck. there is so much more. it is review of 1976 "a star is born" simon wrote that barbra streisand's nose cleaves the giant nose and zigzags across our horizon of the bolt of fleshy lightning. it cleaves across the screen? >> something like that. >> do you think about people's feelings when you write reviews? >> maybe a tiny thought. but not much. a credit can cannot afford to how his recrew will affect an actor. it's the truth. and may the chips fall where they may. >> criticism doesn't always roll
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off our backs. at the university of california's san diego dr. martin is looking to how negative words affect the brain. >> when you hear criticism, somebody says to you, you suck as an actor. that word "suck" gets translated from hearing it to recognizing as word something that is a threat to me. >> he says that at least two regions of the brain work harder when processing criticism and can keep the brain officer doing much else. >> if i engage the brain in criticism and is really working hard it can't work on anything else it becomes all cop sewage. when you engage the brain in strong negative things that negative things become part of who we are. >> it literally affects you to your core. >> absolutely. to your core. >> of course there is such a thing as pushing back.
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consider the case of actress sylvia miles a two time academy award nominee, first of which was for this role in 1969 "midnight cowboy." >> in case you didn't happen to notice it you big texas long horn bull i'm one hell of a gorgeous chick. at 28 years old you can come up here pull this kind of crap up here? >> off screen she was active on the new york party scene. when critic reviewed her in 1973 play he referred to her as party girl and gate crasher. >> i said to her, acting is more like gate crashing. >> not long afterward miles spotted simon at a party and she happened to be holding a plate of food. >> i looked up he's standing right there.
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without even thinking i dumpedded the it. now you can call me a plate crasher as well. >> that's what you said? >> that proves that negative criticism does stick with certain people. >> what went through your head when a plate of food landed on it. >> i would like to eat it but now it's spilled all over. >> despite the food fight, sylvia miles kept on working. >> you know, a cute young boy like you should think of future lady friend. of course, i'm taken. >> john simon, now 88, still writing reviews as credit he can for the suburban new york city paper. without apologies or regret. would you take back anything you've said about barbra streisand or sylvia miles? >> no, i would not.
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i think it remains. >> of course not alacrity ex are john simon. not all criticism is bad for you. tonight the movie people will get picked apart as will we all at some point. but sylvia miles managed to put her memories in their proper place. chances are, so can we. >> one of the things that we're saying our brain remembers the negative. >> absolutely. i couldn't agree with you more. but i've learned to find ways to see the positive side of everything. because you stay healthier if you're happy and you feel good. i'd rather get a laugh than a frown. you know what i mean? >> osgood: up next, oscar
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stand out. first, chinese theater from ronald reagan's older brother neil was the announcer. >> first time that the award ceremonies have taken place in a theater. >> inside the theater stage announcer revealed the second. special effort to reach american forces fighting overseas. >> short waved by armed forces radio service. for this around the world world broadcast is jack benny. >> osgood: he got straight to the jokes. among them long standing complaint about never winning an oscar. >> i haven't got time to hate new people. >> in fact nobody had much time that night. the entire oscar broadcast took
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only 54 minutes. casa blanca won. paul lucas won. charles coburn in "more the merrier" jennifer jones was best actress. oscar ceremonies have changed a lot since 1944. the 1945 awards were first to be heard on radio coast to coast. then 1953. the very first oscar ceremony to be seen on tv with bob hope. >> isn't it exciting to know that a lot of these glamorous stars are going to be in your
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homes, housewives are saying, put on your shirt, joan crawford is coming. television, that's where movies go when they die. >> osgood: ahead -- just the way the sparkles, it is so ornate. >> osgood: when jewelry plays a starring role. [ woman ] i could see it in their faces.
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>> osgood: these are no ordinary bob else. these are hot rocks by master jeweler whose work still sizzles years after his passing. so much more to see. >> they are bold. adventurous. and decadent. and not for the feint of heart. these dazzling creations are the work of david webb whose extravagant and exotic jewelry has been worn by the rich and famous for more than six decades
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from jacqueline kennedy to helen miren and jennifer garner. beyonce rocked webb earrings in recent music video. not everyone is familiar with the name david webb, who was he? >> he was remarkably creative and inventive jewelry designer whose main period was mid '60s to the early '70s. he died at the age of 50 in 1975 which cut his career obviously quite short. >> is it hard to choose which pieces. >> especially given the webb archive is so large. >> the curator of exhibition at the norton museum much art in palm beach. included a centerrers of a necklace commissioned by elizabeth taylor and richard burton. >> i'm good at taking the jewelry off.
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just the way it sparkles. it is so ornate. >> with the roast beef may i suggest -- >> mineral water, please. >> the actual necklace was worn by taylor in the film "ash wednesday" and again on the cover of her book "my love affair with jewelry." these earrings were owned by jackie kennedy. >> these are much more -- perfect for a first lady. >> mrs. kennedy was such a fan she commissioned webb to design gifts to be given out. >> this looks at his interest in nature. >> this street actually an actual shell and encrusted with gold and gems. >> this is one of the more well-known pieces. >> that's one of the most well-known, yes. >> he used coral a lot. >> he loved color. >> and playfulness. there's a bangle in the shape of
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a monkey. an elephant broach with emerald eyes. fruit and vegetable pins. >> kind of irony. it looks like costume jewelry. >> he has a sense of humor. >> a great sense of humor. that's what makes webb popular. >> the man himself remains something of a mystery. he was rarely photographed. what we do know that david webb was were born in asheville, north carolina, in 1925. at age 17 he headed north to new york city. he starts working the diamond district by the age of 23. he opens his first shop. >> ruth is the author of a new book on david webb. how does this happen? who was it that got behind him said, come on, you can do this? >> i think it happens. the world is smaller. and he became best known secret.
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the ladies who lunch started to hear about david webb. >> before long his pieces were gracing the covers of major fashion magazines. >> if i were your husband i wouldn't -- >> adorning hollywood royalty like lana turner. >> the jewelry has presence. this is jewelry for women who are independent minded who know theirwn style. >> after webb's death, the company went through several transformations. today, the proud owners of the brand with a flagship boutique on madison avenue. >> everything is hand made in here. >> absolutely. upstairs the legacy.
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>> has been working on this for a year? >> almost a year. >> thanks to an archive of some 40,000 sketches that david webb left behind the company is busier than ever. prices start at around $5,000 and can go in to the millions. every penny for those looking to shine in the spotlight. >> put in later, yes. >> osgood: putting your best face forward. >> over there in the wash. >> osgood: on location. monument valley.
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me. we saw the beatles it was after he had given fab four the once over. did we mention the familiar political faces who benefited from her touch much. her hollywood counter part is artist of great talent and characters not likely to forget. lee cowan takes a close up look. >> among the stars riding red carpets this season a few made some stunning on screen transformations. going from this. to this. for "the dallas buyers club." >> looking for you. >> remarkable perform apps aided by remarkable. one reason why it's up for oscar in that category tonight. but make up can be illusive art usually at its best, don't notice it's there at all.
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>> this is probably an area of movie making where people don't give you as much credit. we'll spend a week on an affect on camera it's a split second. >> special make up effects march test matthew mungle is used to transforming the famous. hundreds of high creations. >> this is forest whitaker before. >> that cast from his work on lee daniels "the butler" mungle's task was to age nearly the entire cast. everyone from forest whitaker. to oprah winfrey. >> it's a lot about upped the eyes and right in here. gravity is not our friend.
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that's what happens. nominate fr turning james woods in to the aging white supremacist in "ghost of mississippi." >> and for turning glenn close in to a man in "albert knob." >> his original of how the human body ages surpassed by how it decompresses. >> the attic of horrors. >> yes. >> everywhere you turn you find something up here -- >> wish you hadn't. >> various limbs. bodies litter the place. not always in one piece. >> that's one big nose. >> arguably one of the most ma cab filing systems anywhere.
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>> intestines here. >> is this a tongue? ocher's then the selection of severed heads. >> colin farrell. billy bob thornton. >> you think he's a weirdo. >> tracy morgan. >> here is the funny part. >> if i cut my finger right now eight faint in front of you. i do not like real blood. serious. just cannot stand real blood. >> it's been that way ever since he was a kid. you grew up on a dairy farm in oklahoma. >> inatoka, oklahoma. >> how did all of this come out of a dairy farm. >> i loved monster movies. the word frankenstein, i'd stay up late watch dracula. all of those movies. >> when he was 15 he made himself up to look like a character in planet of the apes.
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>> did you really ask to borrow your mom's old make up when she was done. >> oh, yeah. they were skeptical at first. just progressed from there. it got in my blood. it was so addicting to me. >> in 1993, his addition paid off. he took home on oscar for "dracula." >> my dad and mom were watching it at that time. as soon as i won the phone rang, my dad picked it up it was ap news to interview him about his son winning the academy award. he says, i got three sons and matthew nber three but tonight he's number one. >> let's get it. >> movies only the half of it.
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steady diet of cadaver heavy crime shows keeps him busy. he's the lead special effects for "cssi" his work usually ends up on an autopsy table at some point where so realistic even veterans like ted danson freaked out. just what csi director has come to expect of mungle. >> i'm looking forward to this being really graphic, bloody, real show piece. anything you can think of we've done probably. decapitations, melted, burned, eyeless, headless, tongueless, you name it, we've done it. >> i don't use this word very often i think ocean a genius what he does. >> no one sees more of mungle's dark art than actor robert david hall.
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he plays csi's coroner. >> just radiates a certain joy with his work. >> on screen for sometimes just seconds, if he gets it wrong that's going to stick out. >> he doesn't get it wrong. >> mungle is about getting every detail just perfect. down to individual arm hairs put in one by one. >> that's another dimension on top of it. makes it more realistic. >> but all starts with the face. in this case, actress monica casey. >> i don't think on this show have anything else to do but die. >> indeed her character's fate is already cast, literally. monica is drowned in goo with her mouth open.
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after all she's supposed to be dead. after it dries it's cracked open. light of day. a welcome sight. few days later, a new monica is birthed again. ready for detail. right down to her eye lid. >> basically the eye. like an eye lid. that's monica's, weeks of work for just a few digital seconds. for matthew mungle there simply no better job, like being a painter. except often star-studded and moveable canvas.
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>> i love this art. i love creating things. i love just everything about it. it's creating a character by any means possible. >> osgood: ahead -- >> what the -- >> osgood: few words about acceptance speeches. lemme just get this out of here. to go. unlike some places, we don't just change your oil. our oil offer comes with a four-tire rotation
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i am a healthy girl, i love salads, i love fruits, and it's not something i want to give up. my dentist recommended that i use pronamel twice a day as my daily toothpaste. pronamel will help protect the enamel from future erosion. it's just so great because all of those foods that i enjoyed so much, i didn't want to give up, and now i can continue to have them. >> osgood: the acceptance speech. why every word counts in the opinion of our contributor. >> well, thank you. okay, i only have few moments first i want to thank cbs for giving me this time. this commentary really belongs to you, the viewers. thank you so much for listening. tonight will be the most special night particularly those who take the stage to receive a gold guy.
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some of you glittery folks are being sprayed to match the statue are thinking about your speeches. i would like to ask you this, please, no potty mouth. at recent award shows huge stars have used the f word. >> what the -- >> sandy bullock you are america's sweetheart. perhaps use a little more gravity. bradley cooper. >> just the best -- acqueline bissette fired off the f word and rita morena dropped the f bomb. i just feel disappointed when someone who is being honored for expressing the human condition can't do it in grateful, multi-syllabic words. i like a good four letter word as much as the next broad. the time and place is probably not in front of 40 million people the people is not being
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'warred for your extraordinariness. >> wow, okay -- of [bleep] >> confuse emotional, without being crass. emotion doesn't preclude eloquence. even -- >> well i think -- how can we be moved by words that need to be bleeped. please don't pretend you haven't thought about what you were going to say. if you are genuinely shocked speechless, that's charming but statistically naive. >> just call the die source native americans. >> no film has taught me more. >> reading from note cards may be even worse. your actors can't you fake some breathless surprise. movie stars should not be about watching your mouth. we have to pay to watch your
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mouths. for tonight how about the f word being filter. actors, do yourselves proud. show the world that when you don't have a script you still have something meaningful to say. oh, oh, they're telling me to wrap it up. how time flies. thank you for listening. thanks to my husband, my agent. >> osgood: come up. monument valle
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and i took pride in the things i made and my belts whirred and my engines cranked i opened my doors to all and together we filled pallets and trucks i was mighty and then one day the gears stopped turning but i am still here and i believe i will rise again
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we will build things and build families and build dreams it's time to get back to what america does best because work is a beautiful thing. >> osgood: in movies as in real estate, it's all about location, location, location. this morning martha teichner takes us to a perfect location as you can imagine. >> here is a trivia question. who or what did director john ford make a star. as a result of his 1939 movie "stage coach."
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>> whoa, steady. >> if you said john wayne you'd be correct. he definitely was b list before this. there's another answer, want a hint? i said who or what? i'm talking about the place. monument valley, 92,000 acres filled with colossal stand stone formations. iconic thanks to john ford, and the nine films he made here. >> there are certain places in the world that seem like special effects, they don't seem real, they seem too perfect. first time you come here you sue it through john ford's eyes. >> scott eyman has written a biography out in april. >> the american settlers never came here. this was navajo territory.
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but as a metaphor for the american conuq:u of space, of the continent this is the american west. >> this spot is now known as john ford's point. >> so in the climax of the searchers the indian villages down below in the wash. john wayne and rest of this sneak up here. >> in a western the landscape is the character. might make the statement that western the landscape is the most important character. and ford western, monument valley coexists with john wayne. >> so how did john ford find his way here? the story goes that in 1938, hari goulding, known as mike, drove to hollywood with a portfolio of photographs.
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harry showed him the pictures convinced him to make "stage coach" in monument valley where the gouldings ran a trading post. >> this was his potato cellar. just a rough structure they built to store food. ford thought why build a set for john wayne's office, just use this. and there are several scenes where he comes charging out of the front door walks down there to start his day. >> well, care reon. >> to make a film here, john ford had to haul in an entire tent city to accommodate cast and crew. he hired the navajo who lived around monument valley to play apaches and famously paid this tribal medicine man to intervene with the gods to order up whatever weather ford wanted for
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his shoot. ♪ lar reholiday is the great, great grandson of that medicine man. movie buffs may call monument valley ford country or god's studio. but for the navajo it is a sacred place. >> monument valley is like heaven on earth. that's the way i feel. >> what is the word for monument valley in navajo? [ speaking navajo] >> the sand that light up the valley. a park within the navajo nation. there's a rough unpaved road through monument valley. this will give you an idea how
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big the buttes are. they have names like the three sisters, the toe temp pole, the mitt ten. a few families still live here but there's no electricity or running water. the life is hard. helen salizar is 78 speaks almost no english. she makes her living demonstrating traditional navajo way and selling the rugs she weaves to tourist. some of whom undoubtedly look out the door of her hogan and see the opening shot of "the searchers." it is largely because of the movie, according to park officials, that more than
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450,000 visitors come to monument valley every year. at least 70% of them from outside the united states. it's starring role didn't end when john ford stopped coming here. >> right where we stand this is the -- >> the fun of coming to monument valley trying to match up shots. the landscape with forrest gump and without him. the serenity of the desert. wrecked by chevy chase in national lampoon "vacation." since john ford's day this landscape has made an appearance in nearly two dozen films.
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>> when used the monument valley, how do you feel? >> that's home. epic westerns have gone out of style. but monument valley hasn't. as they say, the camera loves it so why not borrow its grandeu,r. >> osgood: just ahead -- it's incredible being recognized in such a manner. >> no higher honor. >> how did you feel. >> let's not get personal. >> osgood: and mo rocca chats with eva marie saint.
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hollywood actor turn in spectacular performance. steve hartman has the story of a boy who bestowed the greatest honor. >> here at the ohio air national guard. lieutenant colonel frank daley can't believe the honor bestowed upon him. >> incredible being recognized in such a manner. >> it happened at a cracker barrel of call places. as the security camera shows, lieutenant colonel daly entered the restaurant on february 7 for early lunch. at about the same time 8-year-old miles eckart. he just found $20 bill in the parking lot. >> just sitting there? >> yeah. >> you start thinking what you wanted to spend it on. >> i decided not to. >> he changed his mind when he saw the guy in uniform.
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>> because he was a soldier. reminds me of my dad. >> so with his dad in mind miles wrapped the 20 in a note that read "dear soldier, my dad was a soldier, he's in heaven now. i found this $20 in the parking lot when we got here. we'd like to pay it forward in my family. it's your lucky day. thank you for your service. signed, miles eckert a gold star kid. army sergeant was killed in iraq five weeks after miles of born. all the kid has ever had are pictures and dog tags. >> this is his wedding ring. >> other people's memories. >> imagine him as a nice person. >> the dad he imagined must also love a good story. after lunch miles asked his mom to make one more stop. >> he wanted to see his dad.
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he wanted to go there himself that day. >> he took this picture from the car, follow the footsteps you'll see him behind the flag presumably telling his dad all about it. whether heaven heard him his good deed impresses here on earth. >> you read it more than once. >> i look at it ever day. >> gave you a bigger gift than $20. >> a lifetime direction. for sure. >> lieutenant colonel daly said he's already given away the 20 plans to do much more. he also hopes that little gene post-it will inspire other people across the country to give. to give as sincerely and dutifully as this father and son. >> osgood: next, oscar winning actress eva marie saint. you've tried to forget
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to hollywood royalty as it gets. she talks about her life in the movies with mo rocca. >> oscar night was a little different back in 1955. >> in new york can the winner is eva marie saint. >> when a pregnant eva marie saint won best supporting actress "on the waterfront." >> i may have the baby but i do -- >> the baby came two days later. >> did you campaign for oscar back then? >> i don't think i knew what the word was. politicians campaign. no. it was just different. >> actor marlon brando. >> it won eight oscars that night including best picture. >> don't say that to me now. >> when you won an oscar was
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your name legally changed to oscar winner eva marie saint? >> yes, and i love it. >> her film debut but she already established herself as dramatic actress doing live plays on television. from early television career is with paul new machine and frank sinatra. >> ♪ love and marriage >> ♪ go together like a horse and carriage ♪ >> on the subject of love and marriage. you've been married to the same man since 1951 you have two kids, how many grandkids? >> three. >> career, family. it was never an issue with you? >> never an issue because i made
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decisions, i had an agent once who wanted me to do many more movies, i said, i can't. i can only do one a year. i had children, little children. he said, well, i guess you won't be a superstar. i said, well, i guess not. >> what happened to that alight? >> fired him. >> family was so important within she made the movie she insisted on bringing her husband, kids, parents and mother-in-law with her to isreal. >> is it true that the director on the set took you in his arms to show paul newman how you should be kissed? >> can you believe that? it's true. i know. there's the whether you eyes of paul newman. he knew what to do, right? >> he lies down on the grass next to me takes me in his arms,
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very funny. >> what are you thinking? are you thinking, oh, my, gosh, fine. >> exactly. >> one of her most famous roles was the sexy spy lady in alfred hitchcock's "north by northwest" his direction to her? >> lower your voice. don't use your hands and look directly in to cary grant's eyes at all times. i looked like the sexy spy lady now? >> are you planning to murder me right here, tonight? >> hitchcock had reputation on being tough on young actresses. >> we were such a wonderful director, gentleman, funny, courteous but there are other actresses who don't feel the same way. i don't want to hear stories about him.
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i don't want to. >> but she'll tell stories about him. >> didn't like the clothes made for me so i flu to new york he sat me down, suddenly this model walked by in a black dress with the red embossed roses. i said, oh, hitch, i like that. he said, wrap it up for misstate. i called him my sugar daddy. >> your voice did something remarkable. >> what? >> yes. >> how did a girl like you get to be a girl like you. >> lucky, i guess. >> you are a super fox. did you surprise even yourself? >> no. i don't think actors are surprised, when i saw myself? >> yes. >> no. that's what we do.
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when you do a show, you see you're very good in something, are you surprised. i can see you are surprised. >> i'm constantly amazed. >> this is a crazy show. >> yes. the 89-year-old actor donated much of her memorabilia to the motion picture academy margaret harrick library. >> this is where everything is kept so beautifully. and here i am. auto video marie saint. >> boxes of memories. there was her early modeling career. >> i was a -- >> how did you become sweater queen? >> she made the cover of "life" magazine. >> you were never in it for the
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fame. it's got to be really special when you're an actress. >> if you're an actor you're not going to be acting in your living room. once people start responding to your work as an artist it's very fulfilling. >> but to be really famous was something she didn't want. she remembers the time she walked in to a movie theater with cary grant. >> the buzz that went on. it was a sound, that sort of thing. then everybody looking at him. i said, how do you cope with this, that kind of reaction, your life is not your own. at t moment he said, it's fine, they're going to go home. they're going to tell everybody that they saw cary grant and everybody is going to be happy. i made them happy. >> when you were kissing cary grant were you thinking of him? >> no.
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are you crazy? >> television director jeffrey hadden has been married three years when they appeared on "person to person" in 1954. >> saying you know how television show is going. how do you think this one is going? >> very awkward. >> do people in hollywood think that you're -- >> no, it's not. >> we have friends who have been married 50, 60 years. >> richard and jennie. >> again. >> they had a marriage that went on for years and years. >>he says she's shy, eva marie saint is not retiring. this movie that you're doing now, was it fun? >> yes. i have a cameo role at the end.
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with colin farrell. >> "winter's tale" is a fable full of miracles and memories. her own memories will be found in any tell-all book. >> you had a book "how to make it in hollywood and be a normal person." >> it would never sell. you know why? because i don't think a lot of people when they associate you with hollywood they don't want to think of you as normal. they want to hear all the stuff from hollywood. >> walking is a big part of your life. >> everybody stand up straight. i want to show people if you walk, you eat the right things, if you don't have stuff done to your face, that's okay. people who do that i'm not against it. but i chose not to and my family said, don't ever. i love my family i said, i never will. >> m sheay have spent most of her life in hollywood, but oscar
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winner eva marie saint never went hollywood. >> would you like to go to the oscars? >> yes. >> what do you think you'd wear? >> i'd buy something new, oh, yes. >> osgood: coming up, star gazing.
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and i have been working together on a little web series we call "my mom on movies." >> hi, mom. >> i'm sitting down. >> we look forward to our weekly chats, me in new york, her in florida. sometimes my mom struggles with the equipment. >> there's no picture. i lost the screen. >> but when it comes to talking about hollywood she has no problem. >> who is going to win best actor? >> the one i would like to see win is bruce dern he was so believable. i wondered if he was a little bit like that in real life. >> as much as she likes bruce dern she has soft spot for his competition. >> matthew mcconaughey. >> i like him for a long, long time. >> did you find matthew to be recognizable in that movie? >> not so much. normally he's really a tremendous looking guy. when the movie opened up i didn't believe that was him. >> when it comes to leading men our conversations often move in
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to the realm of fantasy. would you go on a date with matthew when he was real skinny like that? >> yeah. because he's still the same guy. >> sadly another of my mom's favorite leading men got snubbed by the academy this year. do you like tom hanks? >> i love him. i think he's the greatest. he seems like such a nice man. >> i was curious to see how she ranked tom hanks movie "captain phillips." >> i didn't see the movie. one of the girls told me that a lot of hand held camera shots i am kind of sensitive to motion sickness. >> what do you do if tom hanks invited to you a private screening of "captain phillips" with him? >> i would go and meet him. then i would close my eyes and listen to the movie. >> of course the truth is, no matter who wins the oscar this year, the big prize for me is getting to have these conversations with my mom.
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what is your ritual for watching the oscars? >> get comfortable in a big chair. i'll just watch it. >> tonight my mom and i will be thousands of miles apart watching the festivities from afar. but i have a feeling she'll be dreaming of us together walking the red carpet. >> maybe you'll get nominated some day. >> that's a lot of pressure, you know. >> i wouldn't put myself, i'd just do the best job you can do maybe it will happen, you never know. >> this one can be yours for ten bucks. >> osgood: oscarologist david edelstein. makeup. nails. now advanced teeth whitening is simple with the new colgate® optic white™ toothbrush plus whitening pen. just brush. use the built in whitening pen, then go. no waiting, no rinsing.
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bets based on which movies you like, play cards with me, please. there's a world of hidden oscar campaigning that determines these things. nominees go to parties, weddings, you could of course listen to hundreds of online experts, some calling themselves oscarologists. where do they get the sacred knowledge? a place where the sun don't shine but they have something you haven't got. a diploma. this one can be yours for ten bucks. everyone agrees, it's a rare three-way race among 12 years of slave, gravity and american hustle. but that the likely winner will be "12 years" that's not because voters love it. many think it's torture. >> i don't want to survive. >> because hollywood wants the world to know it takes slavery very, very seriously. they will give the best director award for "gravity" the movie they did love.
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>> i can't breathe. >> matthew mcconaughey will win for "dallas buyers club" because he lost a ton of weight and he's spectacular in "true detective" which happens to be running as votes were cast. cate blanchette is a look for "blue jasmine." some wondered if accusations against her director, woody allen would hurt her. everyone feels sorry for the poor unfortunate actress caught in the middle. jared leto will win for "dallas buyers club" he's amazingly convincing as transsexual and people feel guilty for calling himed leto. what a cutey. supporting actresses is a toughy, suffered eloquently in "12 years a slave" jennifer laurence charmed people's pants off in "american hustle" i say,
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>> osgood: here is a look at the week ahead on our "sunday morning" calendar. on monday president obama hosts benjamin netanyahu at the white house. tuesday is fat tuesday the day new orleans celebrates mardi gras. follows that wednesday is ash wednesday, first day of lent. the period of penance and reflex for christians. on thursday brian of tv's "breaking bad" debuts on broadway at president lyndon johnson in the play "all the way." sun down friday marks the start of the national day of unplugging. 24 hour period which we're urged to turn off our computers and cell phones and talk with real live people instead. saturday is international women's day. day for celebrating the social, political and economic achievements of women around the world.
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as for today, all eyes are on the confrontation in ukraine. let's go to bob schieffer in washington for look what's ahead on "face the nation." good morning, bob. >> schieffer: good morning, charles, they should be. we'll talk this morning to both secretary of state john kerry and secretary of defense chuck hagel. >> osgood: we'll be watching. and next week here on "sunday morning." all that jazz. fiber that's taste-free, grit-free and dissolves completely. so you can feel free to add it to anything. and feel better about doing it. better it with benefiber. lemme just get this out of here. to go. unlike some places, we don't just change your oil. our oil offer comes with a four-tire rotation and a 27-point inspection. and everything looked great. actually, could you leave those in?
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